Clause 75 - Criminal lifestyle
Proceeds of Crime Bill
12:15 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
That raises a very serious point. Let us suppose that a professionally qualified person, be he an accountant or a lawyer—acting in his professional capacity and meeting all the requirements of integrity and honesty placed upon him by his profession—helps and advises a criminal or an alleged criminal who is then convicted. Is the hon. Gentleman seriously arguing that that professional, who is only doing his job, should put his livelihood at risk as well? If that what he is saying, it is monstrous.